Yinzhen tried to persuade Concubine De to give up asking the fourth prince for help, but Concubine De simply refused to listen to his advice.

In the end, the mother and son parted ways unhappily.

Yinzhen had a gloomy face and planned to ask Kangxi for help after the Buku class was over in the evening.

*

Yinzhi encountered difficulties at the beginning of his investigation.

He summoned personnel from the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, and started by investigating who Maska had contacted on the way from the palace to the Heavenly Prison.

Start investigating the case.

However, after carefully questioning the guards, jailers and even the prisoners who were sent to the prison with Maska, they found that Maska had already developed a fever and fainted on the way. Even if he had the opportunity to contact others, he would not be able to communicate any information.

Because he had a higher status among the prisoners, the doctors who were called in treated him first and gave him medicine before they started treating the rest of the people.

A tranquilizer was added to the medicine, so the jailers didn't pay much attention to Maska's condition.

So by the time they found him, Maska had already died.

When Yinzhi was thinking about which direction to investigate next, Yinzhen came to his door.

In the study in the front yard of Prince Cheng's mansion, Yinzhi heard footsteps and shifted his attention from the files to the door. When he saw Yinzhen walk in, the sadness on his face relaxed a little.

"Come on, sit down."

Yinzhen was not polite and walked to the seat closest to Yinzhi and sat down.

"Are you having trouble?"

"Well... I sent people to check who Maska had contact with during his time in the palace and the prison, but I found nothing. He was even very likely in a coma before he hanged himself."

Yinzhi didn't want to hide it from Yinzhen. This case had little to do with Yinzhen, and he talked about it with his brothers at home. Even if Ma Qi had connections, he couldn't have known about it.

Yinzhen thought for a moment and gave a direction.

"Could it be possible that there's a problem among the jailers?"

"I've considered this approach, but there are prisoners next to Maska's cell, and they all said they didn't hear any noise until they found him hanging."

Yinzhi smiled bitterly. All the evidence showed that Maska committed suicide and it had nothing to do with anyone else.

Ma Qi also followed for a whole day, but his old fox didn't find anything wrong.

I guess he's having a headache at home now.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. What brings you here today?"

Yinzhen came back to his senses from his thoughts.

"It's nothing serious... Did you receive a message yesterday?"

"You're talking about the relationship between the Imperial Household Department and my second brother..."

"good!"

Yinzhi narrowed his eyes upon hearing this.

"Who told you that?"

Yinzhen: "Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel."

A hint of surprise flashed across Yinzhi's eyes. Wanyan Daipeng, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was actually also the fourth brother's man.

Yinzhi smiled,

"You trust me, aren't you afraid that I'll spread the news?"

Yinzhen ignored the teasing in his eyes and asked,

"And you, from whom did you hear this?"

"Chen Tingjing!"

"Chen Tingjing?!"

Now it was Yinzhen's turn to be surprised. The clean civil officials led by Chen Tingjing had always stood behind his second brother. How could they have any connection with his third brother? This...

Yinzhen's mind was full of mixed emotions, and his facial expression kept changing.

Yinzhi admired it for a while before interrupting,

"Don't make blind guesses. In the end, we might have the same information source."

"Why would Chen Tingjing tell you about this? He's clearly my second brother's man..."

Yinzhen frowned, staring at Yinzhi with suspicion in his eyes.

Yinzhi: “…”

It turns out that this guy still has doubts about that position.

"What are you thinking about? I'd love to compete with my second brother, but I only have Hong Sheng as my son. Who would be so blind as to bet on me?"

Yinzhi was very angry.

Yinzhen's suspicious expression froze for a moment, and he flatly denied it.

"I did not mean that!"

Yinzhi waved his hand nonchalantly.

"Let's stop talking about this topic and talk about the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. I didn't even know that the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel was your man. How did the mastermind behind this know?"